Redhat 8 to 9

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 21:56 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Michael Kratz <mkratz at internode.com.au>:
> 
> > Anyone done a 7.1 to 7.3 upgrade? I'm wanting to do one of these also.
> 
> Yes, I did one.  Based on the problems I had with it, the next machine
> did a 7.1 to 7.2 to 7.3 upgrade instead. ;)
> 
> There were issues going from 7.1 to 7.3 directly.  I got it to work,
> but it was easier, though more time consuming, to do the 7.1-7.2-7.3
> sequence (no reboot for 7.2).
> 
> > The only other thing I ran into was when I upgraded some stuff to do with
> > RPM, and then I did a rpm --rebuilddb, after that YUM stopped working, so I
> > tried upgrading it to the latest version 2 (instead of version 1) and that
> > fixed that issue.
> 
> Very often I've had issues of apt and yum either uninstalling during an
> upgrade, or not working afterwards.
> 

i'd be impressed if yum removed something that was not obsoleted during
an upgrade. The code that follows out removal dep trees is never
encountered during an upgrade request.

-sv